血液流盡钟。
These are the ones whose revolutions did not come off; they have been able to keep on cheerfully plotting their holocausts right into their senescence.
另外一些人年纪轻轻就死了，死在监狱里或街垒旁。
Others died young, in prison or on the barricades.
但最不幸的是那些革命成功的人。
But the most unfortunate are those whose revolutions have succeeded.
他们极度失望，看到他们推翻的权力机构又被新机构所替代，而新机构依旧是那样冷酷，那样毫无生机。
They lived in bitter disillusionment, to see the establishment they had overthrown replaced by a new one, just as hard-faced and stuffy.
当然，我并不是说革命一无所成。
I am not, of course, suggesting that revolutions accomplish nothing.
一些革命（美国革命，法国革命）确实将事情变得越来越好。
Some (The American Revolution, the French Revolution) clearly do change things for the better. 我只是想说革命无论成败，那些策划革命的革命者们都注定要失望。
My point is merely that the idealists who make the revolution are bound to be disappointed in either case.
因为胜利的曙光无论如何也不会照耀在他们梦想中的那个摆脱了人类一切卑劣的灿烂的新世界上。
For at best their victory never dawns on the shining new world they had dreamed of, cleansed of all human meanness.
相反，它照在了一个熟悉的平庸的地方，这个地方仍旧需要食品杂货和污水排放。 Instead it dawns on a familiar, workaday place, still in need of groceries and sewage disposal. 无论贴着什么样的政治标签，革命后的国家都不是由激进的浪漫主义者来治理，而是由市场营销、卫生工程和管理官僚机构的专家来治理。
The revolutionary state, under whatever political label, has to be run-not by violent romantics-but by experts in marketing, sanitary engineering, and the management of bureaucracies.
对一些决心改造社会，但同时又希望能找到一种比武装革命更可行的方法的理想主义者来说，还有另外一种选择。
For the idealists who are determined to remake society, but who seek a more practical method than armed revolution, there remains one more alternative.
4）循序渐进，逐步改变社会
Try to Change the World Gradually, One Clod at a Time
乍一看，这一途径毫无吸引力。
At first glance, this course is far from inviting.
它缺乏魅力，并且见效很慢。
It lacks glamour. It promises no quick results.
它依靠劝说和民主决策这些令人恼火且不可靠的方法来实现。
It depends on the exasperating and uncertain instruments of persuasion and democratic decision making.
它需要耐心，可我们却总是缺乏耐心。
It demands patience, always in short supply.
它惟一的好处是有时这方法行得通——在这个特定的时间和地点，它比其他的任何策略都更
